Iii ) prefent purpofe) rather fuffer death then renounce this Truth , and denymy daily needof pardon by Chrift ; and I thould think to be as good a Martyr ( as to my caufe ) as any that fithered about Tranfubilantiation,andfuch like things, from the bloody Papifts ; whole caufe , though clearlygood was yet fcarce of fuch high concernment as this. And I confefs, that as wickedand damnable a wretch asMr. Crandon makesme I would not for all the Treafures on earth, be in that mans cafe at death and Judge- ment , who believes that all his fins were fo fully pardoned at Chasdeath, that he bathno need of pardon fince , or at leak that all future fins are fopardoned at his firfc believing that he bath no need to fly to Chrift for daily pardon, nor to pray for it, nor te beholden to God for it,but only for the feelingofit in con- fcience, fuppofing that he practically hold this errour. Conchs. 15. My third proof fhall be from the neceffity of Chrifts death and fatisfaaion, for all our fins committed after our believing : Chriffs fatisfadion was by--fuffering the punifhment due to us for our fins, or only inftead ofit : therefore punifbment was confidered as fuch,as would be due to us for them : therefore when wecommit them, punifbment is due, till God' remit it for the fake of that fatisfaaion. And if it bedue, it muff be due by fome Law : and it couldnot be by an abrogated Law which we were not at all under, and wasnot in force tous , when we committed them : for Lex mortua non agit ; no man is made guil- tyby a Lawwhich is no Law. Therefore it was by a Lawwhich was in force againft us, fo far as to make us guilty of damnation, till God forgive us. Call this, the Lawof Works, or ofnature, or the Moral Law, or what you pleafe ; furely thch a Law there is, or elfe Chrift could not bear the punifhment of any one fin , due to us, except only our fin in cArdam. I prefume to tender thefe Reafons of myDiffent, for Mr. Carlls fatisfatlion, if ( as its likely) this be the point that offendeth him. And I defire the companionate Reader to condole the rnifery of humane frailty and what a necefiity of condemning one another, we Teem to be call upon, through the darknefs of our underfiandings I When I am publifbed a Subverter of Fundamentals ( no lower charge ) on one fide ; and when I am corftrained my fell to be as confi- dent that I fhould fubvert theFoundation it felt, if I ibould think otherwife ; and that L mull deny that Chrift dyed for the fins
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